I am new to EU3 and have just finished reading the base EU manual, and the 4 expansions, and have played through the tutorials. I don't understand why the game designers made the treasury slider mean you are "minting money" and hence inflation should become a factor. There is NO minting of money in my opinion you are just balancing your countries budget!! Why can I simply reduce my research and stability sliders so that I balance my budget or run a surplus and NOT mint money? MAKES NO SENSE!!
New to EU3 - inflation concept bugs me!
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This seems to be the problem.
Relax.
Inflation isn't that big of a deal. For starters, there's no real need for you to run a large surplus all of the time. Try to mostly balance your budget so your finances don't end up below 0. Keep your army maintenance low during peaceful times. And mint just a small amount of money. Move your sliders towards centralization, take the national bank idea, and get a master of the mint.
Reconsider the budget as your country's gross national product. Don't see it as internal shifting of money from the department of research to the department of defense, imagine that you're syphoning off monies from the economic life of your country.
lol you cant use minting freely because its not the same kind of income youre minting.
Basically you have your yearly income and "other" incomes. Yearly income is what provides you with money that youre supposed to live on, it gets added on 1st january each year. If youre spending more money than you make on that day, then youre doing something wrong, you gotta scale down your ambitions to what you can afford.
If you were able to freely mint other incomes (trade, production, tariffs, tax etc) which represent your national "wealth", then youd be able to acquire 10, 20 or 50 times more money than you would get from yearly taxes. This would make the game ridiculously easy. By the way you can do that by turning the inflation off in options. What you get in return is small country that would under normal circumstances be able to afford no more than 5 units, now being able to field 20 or even more (if its a trading super power for example). It changes the game too much and makes it too easy.
Basically you have your yearly income and "other" incomes. Yearly income is what provides you with money that youre supposed to live on, it gets added on 1st january each year. If youre spending more money than you make on that day, then youre doing something wrong, you gotta scale down your ambitions to what you can afford.
If you were able to freely mint other incomes (trade, production, tariffs, tax etc) which represent your national "wealth", then youd be able to acquire 10, 20 or 50 times more money than you would get from yearly taxes. This would make the game ridiculously easy. By the way you can do that by turning the inflation off in options. What you get in return is small country that would under normal circumstances be able to afford no more than 5 units, now being able to field 20 or even more (if its a trading super power for example). It changes the game too much and makes it too easy.
This. But also, I think the idea was to prevent the player "minting [their] way to victory".
I'd just turn it off, tbh. The AI doesn't have a clue how to handle it.
Thanks for your feedback - I think DanubianCossak's response clears things up for me the most. I have played a lot of Civ over the years and got used to a single income and expense stream resulting in either positive or negative net income. So when I see a negative net income number I usually want to make it go zero or positive. In EU3 With annual income being a separate income from monthly I see now how a small monthly deficit isn't a big deal. So where can I see my estimated annual net income?
It supposed to represent issuing more money in an emergency and the effects of such. Its just another option with a trade off. You can increase your centralization, acquire the national bank NI and/or get a master of the mint adviser to increase the amount of money you can 'mint' without inflation (or reduce inflation when not minting).